The Gavelyte, March 1908

•I ' I The Editor's Vi sit. grate resting a moment before re– commencing our sewing. We harl BY ~1188 .JO. EPHT).;E ORR, '11. pulled the machine into the middle of the room and it wa. surrounlh..d by \,\'e three, Pegg_,·, Tom and I, are bits of muslin, lace, embroidery, . cis- orphan. . At one time we li,,ed in a I sors and tape-lines and the stand was little town in Washington. \Ve had , littered in the same fashion. four rooms beside, a fron ~ room in In a little while we heard the ,·tore whil·h Tom had a small book store. door open and then some one intro– Our parlor, or as Peggy in isted on ducing him, elf to Tom as ''Mr. Mere– r·r11ling it, our drawing room was . ep- dith'', of "The Revie\\ ''. It was the a.rated from the sh0p by a little hall- 1 name of the editor of the paper for way, or eatch-all, about five feet I which I had written. I had rones– squan.. . Tom ki>pt his rubbish 111 1t ponded with him a great deal and ou1· and we girb used it for everything, I correspondence had not always been · Pven potatoes and sollletimes the j strictly business. But as Peggy said <·oal-oil can. 1 we never expected anything of this Our parlor which was separated I kind to happen. We jumped to our from the cubby-hole, as Tom called I feet in di may and with a little ex– it, boasted of a small , tancl, several clamatinn of horror wildly began to rol'king chairs, a machine, a little or- I gather up the scrap from the flc>or. gan, an old trunk fixµd up as a win- jTo our relief we heard Tom tell our dow . eat and a. tovt> and hari a faded I visitor that he would t~ke him in as worn 11rus els carpet on the floor. : soon as he attended to some little Then we had two tiny bed-room. I thing in the store. He c;;aid this :tncl a little kitchen , carcely t1rge i loudly enough for our benl'fit and we Pncn1gh to turn around in. certainly improved the little time it To as, ist Tom in money matters in : gave u . Chairs flew to th ,•ir right my spare moment. I wrote i':hort I places and mu~lin lace, ancl embroid– stories an<l articles for a paper of a I ery -· -everything into the trunk ancl neighboring town. It helped won- 1 what we coulcln't get into that we derfuHy in providing dresses, gloves, 1 put behincl it. hats ar.d all tlw dainty things in We had made. o much noise that I which every girl delight-. feari>cl Mr. Jleredith had heard us, but 01w p\·ening after supper Peggy then, happy th,)t, it occurred to me and I wPre sitting in front, of the that he had saicl in one of his lrtters